RUSART's Team

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Elena Perelman is the only owner of RUSART and she has been teaching art classes since 2009. Born and raised in Russia, Elena brought the best old Russian traditions of drawing and painting to Canada. She always keeps an eye on what's happening in the contemporary art culture and always adjusts the program to the students' needs.

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Bruce joined RUSART in 2015. He has a passion for art and has experience in drawing and illustration, silk screening, printmaking, animation, film making, as well as Mac app design and development.
Bruce is teaching our art classes at Hamilton Community Centre (Richmond).

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Elena is a diverse visual artist born in Moscow, Russia. She graduated in 1990 from the Serov's Art School and from the Moscow Textile Academy in 1998, earning a Bachelor's Degree in Fashion Design. She is teaching Saturday classes in New Westminster.

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Laura studied at Vancouver Film School. She has graduated from the Writing for Film and Television program as well as from the Classical Animation program, where her knowledge in anatomy, perspective, composition and color theory was furthered. Now, she is teaching art classes at Hamilton Community Centre (Richmond).

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Anastasiia graduated from Donetsk Art College where she learnt traditional fine art. In 2014 she moved to Canada and gor a diploma of Visual Art in Thompson Rivers University with major in printmaking.

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Alexander Surkoff was born in Barnaul, Russia. In 1996 he graduated from Repin State Academic Institute of Painting Sculpture and Achitecture. Member of The Union of Russian Artists. Although Alexander is mostly focused on graphics, his painting in his exceptional style are amazing. Alexander supports RUSART, but doesn't teach right now. If you're interested in purchaseing his works, feel free to contact us.

Now, over 100 students are attending our art classes on weekly basis. For more than 7 years of work, over 800 students have attended our art classes. About 1/3 of our current students are long-term clients, have been taking our lessons for longer than a year. Every fifth student came here by their friend’s referral.

All our principal teachers are professional artists and designers with years of experience of teaching arts to both kids and adults.